Improvement in clogs or pattens



UNITED STATES ATENT CEEICE CHARLES W. STEARNS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOGS OR PATTENS.

T0 all 1071.071?, it may concern:

Be it known that l, CHARLES W. STEARNs, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Article Designed to be Torn on'the Foot to Remedy the inconveniences of Slippery "Walkin g, and also of Damp Valking; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the method otconstructing and using the sam e, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specication- Figure I being a perspective view, Figs. Il, III, and IV being sectional drawings ot' parts, and Fig. V a general View of the article as it appears on the foot.

Thus the part A A', Fig. I, represents a solepiece similar in shapeA to the sole of a shoe.

B B B is an elastic strap made to go around the heel, and C C C an inelastic strap to go over the toe, and d CZ d are nails or pins with their heads set or fixed in the sole-piece in such a manner that their points vmay project through on the under side.

The elastic strap B B B forms a large loop by having its two ends attached to the solepiece near the hollow of the foot, and thence rising obliquely to go around the heel, as seen in the general view, Fig. V, at B B B. It thus operates to keep the foothold on the foot by constantly drawing against the inelastic strap C C C", which goes over the toe. The two ends of the toe-strap are attached obliquely to the sole-piece, so as to adapt it better to the natural shape of the foot, and also to counteract any tendency of the sole-piece towork sidewise out of place in the act of Walking. The nails or pins are made with broad flat heads, or otherwise conveniently shaped, as shown at h h Fig. 1V, so as to admit of theirI being securely held between the layers of india rubber, leather, or other fiexible sub-` convex surface of the shoe-sole, and thus bycausing it to hug or pack more closely around the edges Will thereby more eitectua'lly exclude the moisture from getting in between the two, and also cause the nails to take a bet ter hold on the ground than they Would it distributed equally over the whole surface of the solepiece. I also contemplate making an article designed more particularly for damp uf'alking, having the same relative arrangement of the sole-piece and straps, but without the nails, and having instead of the nails rows of prominent well-defined proj ections,or a continuous ridge e c', Fig. III, of the substance ot' the sole-piece, or for the same purpose ot making the sole-piece thicker at the edges than in the middle, either of the above methods being designed to exclude the moisture more effeetually by causing the sole-piece to hug or pack more closely around the edges than it would if the greatest pressure came more in the middle ot' the foot.

NVhat I claim, therefore, as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The application of an elastic loop or strap attached to the sole-piece and going around the heel, substantially as in the manner above described.

CHARLES W. sTEARns.

Witnesses:

Jos. W. NEWMONT, EDWIN CHAPIN. 

